⚠️EDIT: I know there is "rye bread" in the US but it's very different than here. You can't find real, Finnish style rye bread there. That's what I mean. ⚠️ This video is filmed one week ago and a lot has happened after it! Coronavirus has arrived in Finland and we live in weird times. For example, all big events have been canceled and people hoard toilet paper and food. Please always wash your hand really carefully before and after the supermarket visit! Stay safe! 💚
Denver shelves have no toilet paper, that's a city of 3 million people, is it the same all around the world? are people really that panicked? common sense just like a regular flu season, wash your hands, don't touch your face, avoid unnecessary contact, stay away from sick people, Just Like A Regular Flu Season, see? no panic.
@@RIXRADvidz If too many people get corona in short period of time there isn't enough medical equipment to take care of all sick people. That's whats going on now in Italy, they have to choose who has best changes of surviving and let rest die with out proper treatment. So not your regular flu but in the other having shit load of toilet paper won't help you when you need extra oxygen or medical ventilator.
Yep. I was at a rural Pennsylvania Walmart yesterday and a woman carted 5 packages of 24 rolls of TP past me. I'm just glad I bought our monthly household supply of 4 rolls a few days ago. Folks, it's NOT an intestinal virus.
I used to go to Finland at least 3-4 times per year, each time for a month with work, and I have never seen a supermarket as big, wells stocked, or tidy as this one, so I am not surprised this one is the best in the country.
Thanks for showing us your food store, and thanks to the store owner for letting you film. Nothing shows how people really live their day to day lives like their food store.
Reindeer is special food here in Canada too -- we only eat it once a year, at Christmas time, unless a confused reindeer lands on the roof out-of-season, then we have that one too! Rudolph steak with Red nose sauce. Yumm! And Olives, the other reindeer garnish.
LOL, I love this - Whenever I visit a new country I love going to the grocery store to try and figure out what most people are eating and try it myself. Great video, thanks!
@@Anniarvaja I agree. The quickest way to get a feel of local culture is to eat what the locals do. I'd rather have a reindeer burger than McDonald's any day.
Anni, kiitos thank you for the great videos. I am Finnish citizen too. My mother is from Finland, and miss going to Finnish stores and buying all those great products. Brings me memories shopping with my mummu in Finland.
Every K-Citymarket looks little bit different as they work on franchising principle and the owner has some leeway on how they decorate and organize the store although it still has to follow the brand. This is particularly pleasing to look at, not quite the ordinary hyper market.
Thanks for sharing that ... I have so many happy memories of trying heaps of cool products from CityMarket ... Being able to just buy products from the shelf that I usually make from scratch felt amazing to me.
That store reminds me of a store here in the US in the next city over from mine. It has the sushi and a section that sell specialty cheeses from around the world a long with a deli that makes everything in house fresh nothing prepackaged. Thanks for sharing Anni can't wait for the next one
Thank you, Anni! Here in Ukraine we have a bit smaller prices: apples for 0.3-0.9€/kg, bananas for 0.95€/kg, tomatoes in summer for 0.5-1€/kg. And aslo rye bread is very popular as well, I would say even more popular, than wheat bread.
well I'm sure there are lots of differences that I'm not even seeing but it actually seems pretty similar to some grocery stores in US. nice tour tho it's neat to see the different kinds of products and what is popular there 😊
Those axles are tapered triangles with round corners. Not something you see every day and pretty difficult to make. I wonder why they went with such a bespoke design.
Two minute googling tells it seems to be an industry standard way, two are triangle two are square with taper. I think the reason is that that way the plastic wearing parts can be made very easily and they adjust for the wear and deformation automatically. It looks like two could come up with the same design even without knowing of another.
Hey anni, i am surpised. these sausages you showed in the end, are also very popular here in austria. we call them "Knacker" its common in austria to grill these sausages at a bonfire. They were aslo eaten cold, just with salt, pepper, fresh onion and mustard 😊 greetings from austria, and stay well
Beautiful supermarket Anni!! N the midst of this Virus and people acting badly too here in Tucson, Az!! So sad😢. So very thankful for your video, so entertaining ♥️ Am going to catch up on your Jolou video with you and Sari making Pipparkakku like my Isa and Aitti made with me when I was little girl♥️ Keep the wonderful videos coming! Sending you both a big hugs!! Taina ♥️
Moikka Anni ja Lauri, loves the video, the gorgeous grocery store. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3! I would like to see how many näkkileipä Finland has! Kiitos 💖
I'm betting that shoppers come from far and wide to shop there. That's the only way such a huge store can stay in business even in or near a large city.
@@markfergerson2145 Yeah we call these things hypermarkets. There's usually just a couple of them per city, and in larger cities they are away from the city center. In the city where I live we have about 20 000 people and we have two hypermarkets very close to the city center, under 1 km away. Most people do their shopping in these hypermarkets because stuff is a bit cheaper there compared to smaller shops located in the city centers, even if they are part of the same chain of stores. And of course the selection is better in a larger store. Even in Kuopio, a city of over 100 000 people, there's only two hypermarkets. One of each of the large store chains we have here.
@@Kepe In the States we call them "Big Box Stores" because they're built like gigantic boxes with no interior walls to divide departments. Typical brands are Walmart and Costco, and bigger cities can support one or more of each, maybe two if the outlying areas have sufficient population. About a half hour from where I live (in rural Washington state) there's a Walmart that gets customers from the ~20,000 population cities it's technically within the borders of, but also people like me who live quite a ways away. The smaller businesses are still around out here because if all you need is some milk or dog food there's no point driving a half hour and fighting the crowd- the local grocery is a bit more expensive as you say but it's still cheaper on fuel.
@@markfergerson2145 I think the Walmart and Costco concept is very different from our hypermarkets. From what I've understood, Walmart and Costco are for buying stuff in bulk quantities and they look more like warehouses filled with pallets of stuff, while our hypermarkets are just like your local supermarket, but larger and located just a bit further away from city centers than regular supermarkets. As you could see, you can buy just one bottle of beer or a small piece of cheese or a small bag of candy and so on, instead of buying some huge bulk packs of stuff. Actually we don't have stores that sell bulk sized stuff so people don't drive half an hour to get to a grocery store. As for the location, our hypermarkets are usually just outside of the city center, like a 5-10 minute drive from the very center of the city in most places. I suppose it has something to do with how different the city structures are in our countries. In the US, the entire east coast is like one huge city, while here you have one city there, then there's an hour's drive through countryside and then you have another city and so on. And the definition of city is quite different as well. My city has only 20 000 people and it's still called a city in Finnish. We do have some malls which are like a 20 minute drive away from the closest city center, but all our hypermarkets are a lot closer to the city they serve. Supermarkets are more local and serve the people who don't have a car or who just need to get a couple things really quickly and a supermarket happens to be closer than a hypermarket. Personally, I just happen to live very close to both of the hypermarkets in my city so I always shop there.
@@Kepe Costco is about bulk buying, Walmart is just a gigantic store with lots of stuff, from groceries to furniture, and you can buy single quantities of almost everything they stock. I live relatively near the West coast of the US where cities and towns are a lot smaller. The town I'm officially part of has a population of ~800 and there's maybe a dozen such towns between here and the Walmart I spoke of. The city the Walmart is located in has four or five "regular" supermarkets but the traffic to get to them is more than I want to bother with so we go to Walmart once a month but again, if we forget to buy something and are in danger of running out we just go to the small grocery store here in town. Different arrangements for different population densities and different buying habits.
Nice store! Looks very similar to our regional store here called Wegmans. Most larger grocery stores here are open 24/7 except maybe Christmas day so it would be hard to find a time with no customers. At night they re-stock so aisles are all full of boxes and carts with just a few customers.
We had to film this on March because the store starts 24/7 open hours since the beginning of April. 😄 24/7 stores are not so common here, but coming shortly.
I live in England, but am fortunate enough to come to Finland 4 or 5 times a year for work, in Helsinki, Espoo and Joensuu. Your supermarkets are much better than ours - the quality of the fresh stuff like meat fish bread and vegetables is way better.
@TheOriginalMaxGForce I'm afraid I have no pride in my country. I've worked in every single EEC country, and can honestly say that in my England is exactly like a second hand sofa. Every place I've been to has better quality food in the supermarkets, better public transport, is cleaner and generally a nicer place to live.
The dairy section is always an adventure for foreigners since in Finland the milk packages don't have brand colours, but are colored by the fat content. Red for whole milk, blue for low fat and light blue for skimmed milk. Many foreigners seem to gravitate towards the green cartons, which isn't milk, but sour buttermilk.
Green in the UK is the basic semi skimmed (1.7% fat), whereas blue is full fat (3.5%) and red is skimmed (0.3%) So I can see why it would be confusing if I went there. In some places you can also get milk called gold top which comes from special cows and has about 5% fat.
That appelsiinijuicemachine was so cool, I have not used it so it was awesome to see it working! 😃🍊 Kiitos Sami, Pirkkalan Sittari is a great store! 😁👍🏻
Sarpale666 I first saw that kind of orange juicemaker in one cafe in Canary Islands about 10 years ago and my local citymarket has had one about two years now.
I try to eat a banana every day. My grandfather did so and he lived to age 98. My mother does so and she is now 90. I'll soon be 57, and other than a couple of weeks off from work after my fall where I broke my leg, collarbone, and some ribs, I haven't called in sick to work in over 25 years. Good health isn't just from eating a banana a day. But it seems to help. 🍌😊👌
Banana is good but fresh banana out of the tree is amazing. The bananas to Finland have to travel so long distance that they are picked raw, packed into boxes and shipped overseas and then they are artificially ripened in huge warehouse with controlled temperature and ethane. They are all green when they arrive to Finland.
@@Saareem The same happens here in Canada. The store I work at gets them green and they ripen for a day or two then we put them on shelves for sale. Sometimes have to put them out green because they sell so fast occasionally.
Hawaii Pizza.... that's a sin!!!! Pineapple should never be on a pizza!!! Big joke with pizza purists in the United States.. Great tour, nice to see what is available in other countries. I love to go to different grocery stores here in the USA, lots of differences in the same city. I remember as a little kid (1960's) on vacation in Florida there being orange juice machines in some restaurants. Keep up the great work!
Moi Anni Lauri and Sami. I can't read the labels when you shake the packages around :-) My fish has to be cooked :-) My favorite yogurt is peach :-) I am a confirmed milkaholic :-) At least I can read your labels, don't understand Suomi though but I can sound it out unlike the Different Russia channel. I do like Valeria's channel too. That orange squeezing machine was neet :-) Happy Spring. Thank Sami for letting you shoot his store. Toilet paper is out here too :-)
Idk where all you have been in the US but in the Midwest at least rye bread is pretty common in grocery stores. Looking for pumpernickel might be your best bet to find dark rye bread like that next time you are in the States. My grandma used to always have a big loaf of rye bread with dill dip as a snack at family gatherings.
@@Anniarvaja That's probably true. I've never been to Finland, but when I've been elsewhere in Europe I've noticed that the quality of supermarket bread is just better overall.
Finnish rye bread is soured - the dough needs to be fermented for dome days before baking, it doesn't need yeast for rising, cause some of the fermented dough will be preserved for the next batch, as a "root". The rye bread "roots" are in some cases preserved as generations old, some of them are family secrets. Only ingredients are rye flour, water, salt and "root".
Very engaging vid! Strange how just a visit to a supermarket can be so interesting. It's the charm of the presenters!!(creep creep) Can you buy Wensleydale? I like a bit of Wensleydale! 😀
That is a beautiful market! It's almost as beautiful as Anni. It reminds me of Whole Foods in the US but with Nordic design. Cheers to Mr. Sami for accommodating this great video. Now I'm hungry.
3:00 these are quite good-looking bananas! Even if a bit expensive. Where I live in Russia, bananas are typically sold for 1-1.25 EUR/kg, though often enough they are too green or spoiled (but then they could be down to 0.7-0.85 EUR/kg, lol). Also, in Russia, almost all bananas are from Ecuador. In Finland?
Looks like a great market! Many items are fresher looking than here. Also, at least we're not alone in the TP hoarding. I couldn't even get soup yesterday. Yikes.
Nice to see you making a series of the Finnish supermarket! 😃 It's actually pretty similar to the Swedish ones, but we don't have the sushi thing. I really wanna see what the American supermarket is like, it would be really interesting to see a video about that too. Sorry but this question might be a bit unrelevant to the video, but how has the Coronavirus affected you? In Sweden, everything is getting canceled at the moment.
Yes, I have noticed that the Swedish supermarkets are pretty similar! Yesterday was "wake-up call day" for Finland and right now we have 155 corona cases here. All big events are cancelled and government said that it´s better to stay home if you can. I´m really worried for my friends because many of them are enterpreneurs and they are losing works right now. Interesting to see what happens later.
Moi Anni! Watching early Saturday in the states. It was really cool to be able to tour the story before it opens. It's amazing how much sushi that place sells! See you tomorrow morning😀 Edit:Watching again, wondering what the color coded sign by the sushi was🤔
Not sure where in the US you were shopping, but we do have rye bread. Maybe it's more popular on the US coast? Your supermarket looks amazing! I love learning new Finnish words!
@@francesca.pellegrino Finnish rye bread is soured - the dough needs to be fermented for dome days before baking, it doesn't need yeast for rising, cause some of the fermented dough will be preserved for the next batch, as a "root". The rye bread "roots" are in some cases preserved as generations old, some of them are family secrets. Only ingredients are rye flour, water, salt and "root".
To see that the hoarding thing is beyond the US is an eye opener. Why? Is the question. Great video! Much love to you n Lowry. (I think I misspell his name)
Moi ! what a great opportunity for you and the shoppe keeper/ owner, you get a great video and he gets TONNES of advertising , my first take away was the appelsini (orange) sunny apples? it's the same at the east end of the Gulf of Finland, you know, st p, because apples there are Yableckie go figure, it's a funny world. Kiitos for the Fun !!
Appelsin = Apple [of] China. It's a Germanic word that made its way into Finnish. Historically, in Germanic languages, the word 'apple' used to refer to practically any type of fruit.
VERY Interesting. Couple of suggestions: try to stop clapping; let us see labels of products (14:50); please don't shake product, it makes it difficult to see label (11:05) (12:20) (12:30). Seriously, I found this extremely interesting and will watch and share the future installments. 😃
Great Video. Great Supermarket. We went shopping the U.S.A. today. Meat case was completely empty. No saltine crackers. No toilet paper. No hand sanitizer. I have heard that they are test marketing socialism in the U.S.A. I think it is caused by the China virus. Is linburger cheese a thing in Finland? I remember when I was young eating a limburger cheese spread on Italian bread at my grandmothers. I don't think limburger chease is available in the U.S.A. anymore.
Pizza is a interesting food in America. If you're from the New York City area, like myself, nothing that comes frozen in a box can be considered "real" pizza. New York City water actually makes our food taste different than anywhere else in the country!
In the U.S. we have a similar product to your Quark. Cottage Cheese. I like it with fresh peaches or pineapple. It is one of my favorite snacks. I especially like peaches that are jarred in white grape juice. So much better and healthier than the sugary kind.
Oh, we do have cottage cheese as well. Quark is pretty different as it's sour milk product much like yogurt but much denser and less flowing. It's substantially less grainy than cottage cheese.
This video was so interesting! Great idea! You could also just do a quiet voice over while you're walking around the store, and you could label it ASMR :)
⚠️EDIT: I know there is "rye bread" in the US but it's very different than here. You can't find real, Finnish style rye bread there. That's what I mean. ⚠️
This video is filmed one week ago and a lot has happened after it! Coronavirus has arrived in Finland and we live in weird times. For example, all big events have been canceled and people hoard toilet paper and food. Please always wash your hand really carefully before and after the supermarket visit! Stay safe! 💚
Hi I like your channel❤👍
Denver shelves have no toilet paper, that's a city of 3 million people, is it the same all around the world? are people really that panicked? common sense just like a regular flu season, wash your hands, don't touch your face, avoid unnecessary contact, stay away from sick people, Just Like A Regular Flu Season, see? no panic.
@@RIXRADvidz If too many people get corona in short period of time there isn't enough medical equipment to take care of all sick people. That's whats going on now in Italy, they have to choose who has best changes of surviving and let rest die with out proper treatment. So not your regular flu but in the other having shit load of toilet paper won't help you when you need extra oxygen or medical ventilator.
Yes, my kids are out of school for 5 weeks (Tacoma, WA). What a crazy year this is turning out to be.
Yep. I was at a rural Pennsylvania Walmart yesterday and a woman carted 5 packages of 24 rolls of TP past me. I'm just glad I bought our monthly household supply of 4 rolls a few days ago. Folks, it's NOT an intestinal virus.
It is very nice for the storekeeper to let you film. Thanks for sharing! An extremely clean store!
Yes, it's super clean and tidy!
I used to go to Finland at least 3-4 times per year, each time for a month with work, and I have never seen a supermarket as big, wells stocked, or tidy as this one, so I am not surprised this one is the best in the country.
Thanks for showing us your food store, and thanks to the store owner for letting you film. Nothing shows how people really live their day to day lives like their food store.
What does this store tell you?
Reindeer is special food here in Canada too -- we only eat it once a year, at Christmas time, unless a confused reindeer lands on the roof out-of-season, then we have that one too! Rudolph steak with Red nose sauce. Yumm! And Olives, the other reindeer garnish.
LOL, I love this - Whenever I visit a new country I love going to the grocery store to try and figure out what most people are eating and try it myself. Great video, thanks!
Same here! And I love to try local food and candy!
@@Anniarvaja I agree. The quickest way to get a feel of local culture is to eat what the locals do. I'd rather have a reindeer burger than McDonald's any day.
Anni, kiitos thank you for the great videos. I am Finnish citizen too. My mother is from Finland, and miss going to Finnish stores and buying all those great products. Brings me memories shopping with my mummu in Finland.
Wow! I just fell in love with this store!
Can't wait to see more! This video was such a great ideas!
The next episode will be great! :D
We must have that OJ machine in the US. How cool is that...it's prïttï gud.
They have them at some Hole Foods stores in the U.S.
What a great store , wide isles and a huge selection to choose from !
sinappi with the sausage! so good summer time food!
This is awesome, thank you for a cool look into Finland and finnish culture. Cant wait to go some day.
Man, that supermarket is so aesthetically pleasing. It's like a movie set!
Also, man all those cheeses... America isn't really good for cheeses.
Every K-Citymarket looks little bit different as they work on franchising principle and the owner has some leeway on how they decorate and organize the store although it still has to follow the brand. This is particularly pleasing to look at, not quite the ordinary hyper market.
Thanks for sharing that ... I have so many happy memories of trying heaps of cool products from CityMarket ... Being able to just buy products from the shelf that I usually make from scratch felt amazing to me.
what a beautiful shop. thanks to Mr. Sami for giving the opportunity to see it that detailed.
Yes, it was awesome to film in empty store! :D
WOW! I'm gonna love this series. Thank you for showing this experience! Learned a lot in this video.
What a Huge shop! I must say the liver box is a personal favourite as my mum (who is Finnish) used to make it for me when I was young.
That store reminds me of a store here in the US in the next city over from mine. It has the sushi and a section that sell specialty cheeses from around the world a long with a deli that makes everything in house fresh nothing prepackaged. Thanks for sharing Anni can't wait for the next one
Videos like this are my favorite and I'd love to see more stores!
Thank you, Anni! Here in Ukraine we have a bit smaller prices: apples for 0.3-0.9€/kg, bananas for 0.95€/kg, tomatoes in summer for 0.5-1€/kg. And aslo rye bread is very popular as well, I would say even more popular, than wheat bread.
well I'm sure there are lots of differences that I'm not even seeing but it actually seems pretty similar to some grocery stores in US. nice tour tho it's neat to see the different kinds of products and what is popular there 😊
Next invention from Lauri?
Orange Juicer 5,000,000
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"Cheap cheese", not to be confused with sheep's cheese... :P
Fazer makes so many wonderful delicious things!
Yes! They are a big player in Finland!
That orange juice machine is a thing of engineering beauty
Yeah I wish I had that at my grocery store! I want to use it so bad
There is nothing like orange juice that fresh. It's amazing.
Those axles are tapered triangles with round corners. Not something you see every day and pretty difficult to make. I wonder why they went with such a bespoke design.
Two minute googling tells it seems to be an industry standard way, two are triangle two are square with taper. I think the reason is that that way the plastic wearing parts can be made very easily and they adjust for the wear and deformation automatically. It looks like two could come up with the same design even without knowing of another.
Yeah they're everywhere in Finland! I usually get them every week and they taste AMAZING
I love the idea of this video, by the way; it's like hanging out with friends rather than being an audience.
the make your own orange juice thing is super cool
Thank you for sharing more of your culture. I will visit Finland sometime soon and videos like this are very helpful and informative.
10:26 That dairy section was huge! 😲
The bakery in the store is so cool!
Yes! Freshly baked breads every day!
It is a delicious thing
Olipa viihdyttävä video! Kiitokset myös kauppiaalle! Hyvä valikoima...ihan tuli näläkä.
Hey anni,
i am surpised. these sausages you showed in the end, are also very popular here in austria. we call them "Knacker"
its common in austria to grill these sausages at a bonfire. They were aslo eaten cold, just with salt, pepper, fresh onion and mustard 😊
greetings from austria, and stay well
Very interesting and impressive. Thank you for sharing!
I used to be a shelf stacker in a local supermarket; happy days !!! I like yoghurt, and fried liver !
It's always good to shop at the best... this was a very interesting video... looking forward to seeing more.
Fun fact: Järvenpää citymarket was nominated the best grocery store in the world
Beautiful supermarket Anni!! N the midst of this Virus and people acting badly too here in Tucson, Az!! So sad😢. So very thankful for your video, so entertaining ♥️ Am going to catch up on your Jolou video with you and Sari making Pipparkakku like my Isa and Aitti made with me when I was little girl♥️ Keep the wonderful videos coming! Sending you both a big hugs!! Taina ♥️
Nice! Your supermarket seems pretty nice. My local supermarket is about 1/4 empty because of people coming to stock up on everything. It's crazy.
Moikka Anni ja Lauri, loves the video, the gorgeous grocery store. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3! I would like to see how many näkkileipä Finland has! Kiitos 💖
Thanks for the tour, Anni, you and Lauri had me laughing several times, so I think it was a bit better than 'pretty good'.
That place is HUGE, even compared to supermarkets in the US.
I'm betting that shoppers come from far and wide to shop there. That's the only way such a huge store can stay in business even in or near a large city.
@@markfergerson2145 Yeah we call these things hypermarkets. There's usually just a couple of them per city, and in larger cities they are away from the city center. In the city where I live we have about 20 000 people and we have two hypermarkets very close to the city center, under 1 km away. Most people do their shopping in these hypermarkets because stuff is a bit cheaper there compared to smaller shops located in the city centers, even if they are part of the same chain of stores. And of course the selection is better in a larger store. Even in Kuopio, a city of over 100 000 people, there's only two hypermarkets. One of each of the large store chains we have here.
@@Kepe In the States we call them "Big Box Stores" because they're built like gigantic boxes with no interior walls to divide departments. Typical brands are Walmart and Costco, and bigger cities can support one or more of each, maybe two if the outlying areas have sufficient population. About a half hour from where I live (in rural Washington state) there's a Walmart that gets customers from the ~20,000 population cities it's technically within the borders of, but also people like me who live quite a ways away.
The smaller businesses are still around out here because if all you need is some milk or dog food there's no point driving a half hour and fighting the crowd- the local grocery is a bit more expensive as you say but it's still cheaper on fuel.
@@markfergerson2145 I think the Walmart and Costco concept is very different from our hypermarkets. From what I've understood, Walmart and Costco are for buying stuff in bulk quantities and they look more like warehouses filled with pallets of stuff, while our hypermarkets are just like your local supermarket, but larger and located just a bit further away from city centers than regular supermarkets. As you could see, you can buy just one bottle of beer or a small piece of cheese or a small bag of candy and so on, instead of buying some huge bulk packs of stuff. Actually we don't have stores that sell bulk sized stuff so people don't drive half an hour to get to a grocery store. As for the location, our hypermarkets are usually just outside of the city center, like a 5-10 minute drive from the very center of the city in most places. I suppose it has something to do with how different the city structures are in our countries. In the US, the entire east coast is like one huge city, while here you have one city there, then there's an hour's drive through countryside and then you have another city and so on. And the definition of city is quite different as well. My city has only 20 000 people and it's still called a city in Finnish. We do have some malls which are like a 20 minute drive away from the closest city center, but all our hypermarkets are a lot closer to the city they serve. Supermarkets are more local and serve the people who don't have a car or who just need to get a couple things really quickly and a supermarket happens to be closer than a hypermarket. Personally, I just happen to live very close to both of the hypermarkets in my city so I always shop there.
@@Kepe Costco is about bulk buying, Walmart is just a gigantic store with lots of stuff, from groceries to furniture, and you can buy single quantities of almost everything they stock. I live relatively near the West coast of the US where cities and towns are a lot smaller. The town I'm officially part of has a population of ~800 and there's maybe a dozen such towns between here and the Walmart I spoke of. The city the Walmart is located in has four or five "regular" supermarkets but the traffic to get to them is more than I want to bother with so we go to Walmart once a month but again, if we forget to buy something and are in danger of running out we just go to the small grocery store here in town.
Different arrangements for different population densities and different buying habits.
The famous My summer car sausages :D
Nice store! Looks very similar to our regional store here called Wegmans. Most larger grocery stores here are open 24/7 except maybe Christmas day so it would be hard to find a time with no customers. At night they re-stock so aisles are all full of boxes and carts with just a few customers.
We had to film this on March because the store starts 24/7 open hours since the beginning of April. 😄 24/7 stores are not so common here, but coming shortly.
Very good episode ! However, i was waiting for Hernekeittoa and Savumuikkuja öljyssä, to appear at some point. ♥
I live in England, but am fortunate enough to come to Finland 4 or 5 times a year for work, in Helsinki, Espoo and Joensuu.
Your supermarkets are much better than ours - the quality of the fresh stuff like meat fish bread and vegetables is way better.
@TheOriginalMaxGForce I'm afraid I have no pride in my country. I've worked in every single EEC country, and can honestly say that in my
England is exactly like a second hand sofa. Every place I've been to has better quality food in the supermarkets, better public transport, is cleaner and generally a nicer place to live.
The dairy section is always an adventure for foreigners since in Finland the milk packages don't have brand colours, but are colored by the fat content. Red for whole milk, blue for low fat and light blue for skimmed milk. Many foreigners seem to gravitate towards the green cartons, which isn't milk, but sour buttermilk.
One of our friend came to Finland and he loved Finnish rahka. Then he went to the store alone and he bought by mistake viili (soured whole milk). :D
Green in the UK is the basic semi skimmed (1.7% fat), whereas blue is full fat (3.5%) and red is skimmed (0.3%) So I can see why it would be confusing if I went there. In some places you can also get milk called gold top which comes from special cows and has about 5% fat.
That's how milk colors are done in America, too. Except sometimes skim milk is pink rather than light blue.
@@alvatoredimarco Pink as a milk color wouldn't probably sell well here =)
@@danielwilson5102 special cow milk i want to taste that 😂i usually drink the red one which is about 3% fat but holy crap 5%
14:53 These just look like Cervelas from Switzerland! :D We also eat them at barbecues or over a bonfire with sticks.
When I visit my friends in Rovaniemi we always have a beetroot mayonnaise side dish which I love but just can’t get in the UK
I have to say I applauded when the fancy cheeses came out.... mine is Tilsit and Greyere harder to find in Australia but oooohh soooo enjoyable !!!
*Gruyère
That appelsiinijuicemachine was so cool, I have not used it so it was awesome to see it working! 😃🍊
Kiitos Sami, Pirkkalan Sittari is a great store! 😁👍🏻
Sarpale666 I first saw that kind of orange juicemaker in one cafe in Canary Islands about 10 years ago and my local citymarket has had one about two years now.
Banana is the best selling fruit at the Sobeys store I work at as well. It must be a universal flavour almost everyone loves :)
Banana is so easy snack and it's easy to take with you. 😄
I try to eat a banana every day. My grandfather did so and he lived to age 98. My mother does so and she is now 90. I'll soon be 57, and other than a couple of weeks off from work after my fall where I broke my leg, collarbone, and some ribs, I haven't called in sick to work in over 25 years.
Good health isn't just from eating a banana a day. But it seems to help. 🍌😊👌
Banana is good but fresh banana out of the tree is amazing. The bananas to Finland have to travel so long distance that they are picked raw, packed into boxes and shipped overseas and then they are artificially ripened in huge warehouse with controlled temperature and ethane. They are all green when they arrive to Finland.
@@Saareem The same happens here in Canada. The store I work at gets them green and they ripen for a day or two then we put them on shelves for sale. Sometimes have to put them out green because they sell so fast occasionally.
That's wery weird to see that store on this video, becouse I go there pretty often. That was good video!😁
Kiitos! Love the topic as the food selections are much like what we eat.
Hawaii Pizza.... that's a sin!!!! Pineapple should never be on a pizza!!! Big joke with pizza purists in the United States.. Great tour, nice to see what is available in other countries. I love to go to different grocery stores here in the USA, lots of differences in the same city. I remember as a little kid (1960's) on vacation in Florida there being orange juice machines in some restaurants. Keep up the great work!
Do they supply the roller skates for getting about that giant place?
12:45 that's not Markkanen, it's Sasu Salin! 😝
Great video! Kiitos!!! 🙂🇫🇮
Pretty Good hoodie.👍
Prrriiti Guud video.👍
Verrrri Guud hosts.👍
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Pretty good comment! 😄
@@Anniarvaja Prrritti Guud selection of fruits, vegetables, meats, and CHEESES.🧀🧀🧀👍😀
Moi Anni Lauri and Sami. I can't read the labels when you shake the packages around :-) My fish has to be cooked :-) My favorite yogurt is peach :-) I am a confirmed milkaholic :-) At least I can read your labels, don't understand Suomi though but I can sound it out unlike the Different Russia channel. I do like Valeria's channel too. That orange squeezing machine was neet :-) Happy Spring. Thank Sami for letting you shoot his store. Toilet paper is out here too :-)
I were also bothered by shaking of the items.
Idk where all you have been in the US but in the Midwest at least rye bread is pretty common in grocery stores. Looking for pumpernickel might be your best bet to find dark rye bread like that next time you are in the States. My grandma used to always have a big loaf of rye bread with dill dip as a snack at family gatherings.
But American rye bread is not the same than here.
@@Anniarvaja That's probably true. I've never been to Finland, but when I've been elsewhere in Europe I've noticed that the quality of supermarket bread is just better overall.
Finnish rye bread is soured - the dough needs to be fermented for dome days before baking, it doesn't need yeast for rising, cause some of the fermented dough will be preserved for the next batch, as a "root". The rye bread "roots" are in some cases preserved as generations old, some of them are family secrets. Only ingredients are rye flour, water, salt and "root".
Very engaging vid!
Strange how just a visit to a supermarket can be so interesting. It's the charm of the presenters!!(creep creep)
Can you buy Wensleydale? I like a bit of Wensleydale! 😀
In our store we have many kinds of bread. We only have a small amount of rye bread. More pumpernickel.
That is a beautiful market! It's almost as beautiful as Anni. It reminds me of Whole Foods in the US but with Nordic design. Cheers to Mr. Sami for accommodating this great video. Now I'm hungry.
Anni you are looking great!
3:00 these are quite good-looking bananas! Even if a bit expensive. Where I live in Russia, bananas are typically sold for 1-1.25 EUR/kg, though often enough they are too green or spoiled (but then they could be down to 0.7-0.85 EUR/kg, lol).
Also, in Russia, almost all bananas are from Ecuador. In Finland?
great video Annie makes me laugh my wife and I think her face expression are the best
Loved this clip. On to next show on your channel now!
Looks like a great market! Many items are fresher looking than here. Also, at least we're not alone in the TP hoarding. I couldn't even get soup yesterday. Yikes.
Yeah, people went crazy! TP, tuna, pasta and bread all gone!
@@Anniarvaja Also minced meat and rice. (tuna wasn't actually completely gone by around 17-18 in my local store). Rye bread was all gone.
Good way of avoiding all the queues!
In the U.S., we use our rye for whiskey. :-) Anything left over, maybe it gets made into bread.
That was an interesting and fun video! Thanks!
Nice to see you making a series of the Finnish supermarket! 😃 It's actually pretty similar to the Swedish ones, but we don't have the sushi thing. I really wanna see what the American supermarket is like, it would be really interesting to see a video about that too. Sorry but this question might be a bit unrelevant to the video, but how has the Coronavirus affected you? In Sweden, everything is getting canceled at the moment.
Yes, I have noticed that the Swedish supermarkets are pretty similar!
Yesterday was "wake-up call day" for Finland and right now we have 155 corona cases here. All big events are cancelled and government said that it´s better to stay home if you can. I´m really worried for my friends because many of them are enterpreneurs and they are losing works right now. Interesting to see what happens later.
@@Anniarvaja Yep, I hope the best for everybody
Looks better than my local supermarkets!
Moi Anni! Watching early Saturday in the states. It was really cool to be able to tour the story before it opens. It's amazing how much sushi that place sells! See you tomorrow morning😀
Edit:Watching again, wondering what the color coded sign by the sushi was🤔
A very lovely presentation, nice video Anni :)
Not sure where in the US you were shopping, but we do have rye bread. Maybe it's more popular on the US coast?
Your supermarket looks amazing! I love learning new Finnish words!
Rye bread is not the same there. Actually you can't even call it rye bread, it's so different. 😀
@@Anniarvaja well then I must try it in Finland someday!
@@francesca.pellegrino Finnish rye bread is soured - the dough needs to be fermented for dome days before baking, it doesn't need yeast for rising, cause some of the fermented dough will be preserved for the next batch, as a "root". The rye bread "roots" are in some cases preserved as generations old, some of them are family secrets. Only ingredients are rye flour, water, salt and "root".
i love finland everything about finland is fresh and not so much preservatives
To see that the hoarding thing is beyond the US is an eye opener. Why? Is the question. Great video! Much love to you n Lowry. (I think I misspell his name)
Lauri.
Hey, tell Anni this was a great video about the supermarket in Finland! 😁👍
Microwave and pizza, two words that should never be spoken in the same sentence. Yes, us Chicago people take pizza extremely seriously. : )
Those cheap popular pizzas which they showed are actually sometimes called roiskeläppä, which means mud flap 😊
This really makes me miss the foods I tried when I visited Finland. I ate a lot of those microwave pizzas when I got home from night clubs
Around here we call them as "roiskeläppä" = mud flap.
Moi ! what a great opportunity for you and the shoppe keeper/ owner, you get a great video and he gets TONNES of advertising , my first take away was the appelsini (orange) sunny apples? it's the same at the east end of the Gulf of Finland, you know, st p, because apples there are Yableckie go figure, it's a funny world. Kiitos for the Fun !!
I said him that most of views will come from abroad so it maybe doesn´t help his business much but he was still very excited about this project! 😁
@@Anniarvaja I'd say it helps for the whole chain. Hopefully there will be travelers, who'll choose their markets for the review.
Appelsin = Apple [of] China. It's a Germanic word that made its way into Finnish. Historically, in Germanic languages, the word 'apple' used to refer to practically any type of fruit.
2:21 I see Electronic Shelf Price Tags. 🧐 Also known as wireless wifi digital e ink, electronic paper or liquid crystal paper.
I'm extremely hungry after watching this 😀
VERY Interesting. Couple of suggestions: try to stop clapping; let us see labels of products (14:50); please don't shake product, it makes it difficult to see label (11:05) (12:20) (12:30). Seriously, I found this extremely interesting and will watch and share the future installments. 😃
Mukava video! hyvä että Suomen laadukkaat elintarvikkeet pääsee näytille muulle maailmalle:)
We didn't understand "quarks" and had to look it up. We never heard of kvark before! Now on a quest to find some in Kentucky.
If you are adventurous you can do it yourself. At least if there's sour milk available. And cheese rennet. 😄
Great Video. Great Supermarket. We went shopping the U.S.A. today. Meat case was completely empty. No saltine crackers. No toilet paper. No hand sanitizer. I have heard that they are test marketing socialism in the U.S.A. I think it is caused by the China virus. Is linburger cheese a thing in Finland? I remember when I was young eating a limburger cheese spread on Italian bread at my grandmothers. I don't think limburger chease is available in the U.S.A. anymore.
7:56 "Here we have all kind of meetings" :D Thanks for this :)
Pizza is a interesting food in America. If you're from the New York City area, like myself, nothing that comes frozen in a box can be considered "real" pizza. New York City water actually makes our food taste different than anywhere else in the country!
I'm sure Sami appreciates the free advertising.
If you are running out of content, I would love to see you do more home cooking
I think it doesnt help much Sami's business when 95% views come from abroad. 😃
In the U.S. we have a similar product to your Quark. Cottage Cheese. I like it with fresh peaches or pineapple. It is one of my favorite snacks. I especially like peaches that are jarred in white grape juice. So much better and healthier than the sugary kind.
Oh, we do have cottage cheese as well. Quark is pretty different as it's sour milk product much like yogurt but much denser and less flowing. It's substantially less grainy than cottage cheese.
@@Saareem Similar to sour cream?
@@rodtoler It's pretty similar to some of thicker low fat Greek yogurts, Fage branded is quite close
You are so sweet! Nice tour!!
I always thought that Valio hedelmäpommi (in engl.Fruitbomb) is most popular
youghurt in Finland.
It probably suffers from not being the cheapest one around. Arkijugurtti is cheaper hence people tend to buy it.
This is a very nice grocery store! I would love to show you the enormous ones we have in Texas
Everything is enormous in Texas! :D
Anni Vuohensilta here is a video tour through a new grocery store in Texas. Enjoy! ruclips.net/video/9U7cUw6Oh3Y/видео.html
HEB?
Peter S yes, it stands for Howard E. Butt, the son of the founder of the chain of stores in 1905
Yes it is hard to find good rye bread in the states.
Yeah,there are some but it's not the same what we have here!
This video was so interesting! Great idea! You could also just do a quiet voice over while you're walking around the store, and you could label it ASMR :)
3:21 We’ve got the exact same juice machines here in Swiss supermarkets! :o
I love behind the scenes of mundane Finnish life.